Orang Ulu

• Orang Ulu is an ethnic group in Sarawak. 
• The various Orang Ulu ethnics together make up roughly 6% of Sarawak's population.
• The phrase Orang Ulu means upriver people and is a term used to collectively describe the numerous tribes that live upriver in Sarawak's vast interior.
• Such groups include the major Kenyah and Kayan people, and the smaller neighbouring groups of the Kajang, Kejaman, Punan, Ukit, and Penan.
• Nowadays, the definition also includes the down-river tribes of the Lun Bawang, Lun Dayeh, "mean upriver" or "far upstream", Berawan, Saban as well as the plateau-dwelling Kelabits.  
• Orang Ulu is a term coined officially by the government to identify several ethnics and sub-ethnics who live mostly at the upriver and uphill areas of Sarawak. Most of them live in the district of Baram, Miri, Belaga, Limbang, and Lawas.
• A vast majority of the Orang Ulu tribe are Christians but traditional religions are still practised in some areas.Some of the major tribes making up the Orang Ulu group include:
  
  • Kenyah
  • Kayan
  • Lun Bawang
  • Kelabit
  • Penan
  • Bisaya